RGS Energy, the commercial division of Real Goods Solar, is completing the final phases of a solar array at the new Kohler Environmental Center for Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT. RGS Energy, the commercial division of Real Goods Solar, is completing the final phases of a solar array at the new Kohler Environmental Center [...]
Mars Chocolate North America, makers of Las Vegas’ own Ethel M Chocolates, announced today the grand opening of a new solar garden at its Henderson chocolate factory. The state-of-the-art solar installation provides 100 percent of the electrical energy to the Ethel Ms plant during peak operating hours. The project’s completion was commemorated with a ribbon-cutting [...]
They may say everything is bigger in Texas, but at KB Home (NYSE:KBH) your energy usage doesn’t have to be—in fact it could be zero. KB Home unveiled its first net-zero energy home in the Houston area during a special event held today at its Lago Vista at Westheimer Lakes community in Richmond. At the [...]
Solar Thermal Magazine joins the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIASF) in announcing the winners of the first-of-its-kind Architecture at Zero competition for zero net energy (ZNE) building designs. See Below: Chris Parlette (Berkeley, CA; Towards Net Zero Energy), Tom Tang and Yijie Dang (New York, NY; Chimera), HOK San Francisco (San Francisco, [...]
Turner Construction Company, Arizona recently celebrated the Topping Out of the new innovative Colonel Smith Middle School. The public, replacement school is being built on Fort Huachuca, the Army’s leading intelligence training facility at 155 Carter Avenue, Fort Huachuca, Arizona 85670. The new Colonel Smith Middle School will be Arizona’s first Net Zero Energy Building [...]
The U.S. Army and the Environmental Protection Agency are collaborating on the Army’s “Net Zero” initiative to conserve energy and water while recycling waste at military installations. Paul Anastas, assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Development and science advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency, and Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for [...]
The Davis-based Valley Climate Action Center has awarded the UC Davis Energy Institute $25,000 to study how the energy-saving innovations employed at UC Davis West Village can help the city achieve its zero net energy goals. (UC Davis photo) A new agreement between the UC Davis Energy Institute and the nonprofit Valley Climate Action Center [...]
New Building Norms Can Drive BIPV Mainstream, with 6.6 GW Market in 2021 Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) can become mainstream with an estimated 6.6 GW installed in 2021 as the European Commission’s Net-Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs) standards lead to likely widespread adoption across the continent, according to a report from Lux Research. In the most likely [...]
TD Bank Group today announced the opening of the first net-zero energy bank branch in Canada, which aims to generate as much energy as it uses. Located at 1663 Richmond Street North in London, Ont., the retrofitted TD branch uses solar panels – located on the surrounding property – to generate renewable energy. The site [...]
NEW YORK – Oriented toward the arc of the sun, Cornell University’s proposed New York City Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island will capture a large, daily dose of solar power and will use the Earth’s generous internal, thermal power as an additional energy source. The main educational building, a home for the Cornell and Technion [...]
Beautiful Earth Group is pleased to announce that the New York Center for Sustainable Energy has opened at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. NYCSE is New York City’s first net zero educational center ( www.nycse.org ). It is sustainably designed, entirely off-grid and modular. It also serves Brooklyn Bridge Park’s daily operations by collecting [...]
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division today celebrated the success of its most ambitious environmental sustainability project to-date by announcing that its Casa Grande, Arizona, facility has reached “near net zero.” The “near net zero” vision was to transform an existing facility so that it would be as far “off the grid” as possible and run [...]
Solar enterprise Phaesun GmbH situated in Memmingen celebrated their „10 years of Phaesun and more than 500 years of Off-Grid experience“ anniversary on September 30 and October 1 together with their customers and 13 international manufacturers of the solar trade. On this occasion, the Off-Grid experts organised a two days’ exhibition with accompanying workshops. All [...]
SkyFuel First in Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Industry to Offer Insurance-Backed Warranty
Solar Thermal Developer Solar Millennium Sells Additional Investments
Abengoa and JGC’s Thermal Solar Power Plant, Solacor 1, Comes Online
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
RSS
FeedBurner Newslette
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
